Connie: Your daughter's not your daughter, and the cash that used to be your jewels is now your underwear! Snaps: Now you've got it! Connie: I got it! (beat) I don't even know what I'm talkin' about!

A screwball farce written by Claude Magnier as a play about an industrialist trying to get back the money one of his employees stole and the resulting complications. It was made into a French film (starring the great Louis de Funès, who also starred in the play countless times) in 1967 that he co-wrote. Then in 1991 he updated the play to be about a mobster trying to go straight, adding an extra complication to the plot. This was then made into an American film by director John Landis, starring Sylvester Stallone and Tim Curry, among several character actors.

A traditional farce, it features loads of swapping of little black bags (which may contain jewels or underwear, as the plot requires) than any other film in memory. Contains the mook with a ridiculous armory in his jacket (blackjack, pistol, club, knife, switchblade, brass knuckles...): "It's like disarming Germany!"

Not to be confused with the nickname for the Academy Award (which it didn't win any anyway).

Oscar (the american movie) provides examples of the following tropes:

Arranged Marriage: Lisa is in one of these when the film starts, only to have it fall through when the husband falls for their maid.

Luke, You Are My Father / Luke, I Am Your Father: Theresa said she was Angelo's daughter to make Anthony think she came from a well-to-do family. She later confesses this lie to Angelo himself. Neither she nor Angelo knew that Theresa really is Snaps' daughter from when he and her mother Roxanne worked for the same mob boss.

Mistaken for Pregnant: Lisa tricks Snaps into thinking she's pregnant so he'll let her marry whom she thinks is her ex, Oscar.

Mistaken Identity: Snaps thinks Anthony wants to marry Lisa at first, while Lisa thinks Oscar came back to marry her when he tells her.

My Beloved Smother: Thornton identifies with Lisa wanting to get out of the house, since his mother "can be so possessive".

Off the Table: When the bankers showed they didn't trust Angelo, he ended up not doing business with them.

One Dialogue, Two Conversations: Snaps browbeats Anthony into marrying Lisa by convincing him that his tailors, the Finuccis are really hired killers. When they later brag about their success (a photo of a murdered gangster wearing one of their suits) and offer to make him a suit, Anthony thinks they're the ones who killed him and are threatening to do the same to him.

Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: The presumably-Irish maid drops her accent as soon as she's out of the Provolone household, but turns it back on when she returns for her bag.

Overprotective Dad: Snaps, who already has a marriage set up for Lisa whether she likes it or not, and resorts to deception, blackmail, threats, and bribery to get her a husband when he thinks that she's pregnant.

Pretty in Mink: Sofia wears a couple, and the maid wears a fur coat after she leaves to get married.

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